Woodward under fire, a retrospective

4/30/12 11:45 AM EDT

My colleague Tim Mak has put together a nice collection of past occasions where critics have questioned Bob Woodward’s reporting, starting with Adrian Havill's, who -- like Jeff Himmelman today -- questioned Woodward’s use of a flowerpot to signal to “Deep Throat."

“[It] does strain credulity,” Havill wrote, since Woodward’s balcony faced an inner courtyard and isn’t visible from a nearby alleyway.